Witnesses for the persecution
With Mitt Romney's campaign struggling, and with the specter of Rick Santorum as the standard bearer of the Republican Party looming, talk of a brokered convention grows. And it's not just coming from gleeful Democrats:
Many senior Republicans do not think Santorum, a social conservative caught up in the U.S. culture wars over issues like abortion and contraception, has a chance to beat Obama if he wins the party's presidential nomination.
Seriously? Senior Republicans are concerned about
Rick Santorum being "caught up" in culture war issues? They must be alternate-universe Republicans, because besides abortion, the only issue the ones on planet Earth have a laser-like focus on—or perhaps I should say, a trans-vaginal probe on—is birth control.
Apparently those concerned "senior Republicans" missed Republican Rep. Darrell Issa's all-male review on birth control; and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's vow to fight for the right of men to dictate women's health care until the White House "backs down"; and Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner's promise to uphold the Constitutional right of religious institutions to take over family planning decisions; and that the majority of Republican senators and congressmen have signed onto this dream of returning women to the 19th century.
And that's just in the past week. Don't get me started on the past year.
Oh, and what does Mitt Romney—the sure-fire-winner that those concerned Republicans want as their nominee—have to say about this latest culture war launched by his party?
This kind of assault on religion will end if I'm president of the United States.
Is Rick Santorum a theocratic lunatic? Of course he is. But guess what, boys? So is the rest of today's Republican Party. You broke it, you bought it. Now you get to live with it.